It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

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

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

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.