To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.