The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.