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

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Encourage innocent amusement.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.