Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.