Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

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.

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