Who said “It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”?

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!”

“Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.”

“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

“He who sings, frightens away all his ills.”

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''”

“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”

“Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.”

“I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.”

“From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”

“Remote and ineffectual don.”