Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

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.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.