The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.