Content thyself to be obscurely good.
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
Colors speak all languages.
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.