If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.