What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

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.

All of heaven we have below.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

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.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.