Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation
Science is practical philosophy.
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.