The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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