I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.