There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.