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

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.