Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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