True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

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

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.