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

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.