Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

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

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.