Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.