Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

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

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.