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

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.