A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us. ' I have no patience for such coxcombs.
Surfeits kill more than fasting does.
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.
I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
He who has wealth has friends.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.