Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.