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

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.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.