I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.