A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.