“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”

“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”

“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience”

“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind”

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”