When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .