There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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