Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

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

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.