Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.