Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

War is the trade of kings.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

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

Take the good the gods provide thee.