O Ye Powers That Search

Music, Among Those Who Were Styled The Chosen People, Was A Religious Art.

There Is Nobody So Weak Of Invention That Cannot Make Some Little Stories To Villify His Enemy.

Man Is Subject To Innumerable Pains And Sorrows By The Very Condition Of Humanity, And Yet, As If Nature Had Not Sown Evils Enough In Life, We Are Continually Adding Grief To Grief And Aggravating The Common Calamity By Our Cruel Treatment Of One Another.

Man Is The Merriest Species Of The Creation; All Above Or Below Him Are Serious.

An Honest Private Man Often Grows Cruel And Abandoned When Converted Into An Absolute Prince. Give A Man Power Of Doing What He Pleases With Impunity, You Extinguish His Fear, And Consequently Overturn In Him One Of The Great Pillars Of Morality.