Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

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

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

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.