Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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.

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

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.