True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.