Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.