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.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.