Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

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

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.