Music serves to make a home pleasant by engaging many of its inmates in a delightful recreation, and thus dispelling the sourness and gloom which frequently arises from disputes, from mortified vanity, from discontent and envy.
When some of the courtiers endeavored to excite Philip the Good to punish a prelate who had used him "I know," said he, "that I can avenge myself; but it is a fine thing to have vengeance in one's power and it."
