A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.