There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

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.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.