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

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.