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.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.