Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

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

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!