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

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.