Virtue which shuns, the day.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

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

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.