Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. – Joseph Addison
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart