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

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

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

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.