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

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.