The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

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

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.