If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.”