Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.