Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

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

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.