A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

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

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

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.