There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.