Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

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

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.