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

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

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

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

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.