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

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.