Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.