Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.