It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

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.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

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

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.