Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.