We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.