Encourage innocent amusement.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

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

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.