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

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

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

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.