If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.