I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

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