If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.