Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Variety is the condition of harmony.