I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.