Successful crimes alone are justified.
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.