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.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

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

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.