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

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

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.