A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

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

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.