The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

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

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.