Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
In rising sighs and falling tears.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'