A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

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

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.