Successful crimes alone are justified.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.