Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.