A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.