What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

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

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.