A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.