If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.