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.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.