The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.