The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.