Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.