Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.