When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.