"Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circum…"

"'Twas the saying of [Georgias Leontinus apud Arist. Rhetor. lib. 3. cap. 18… which the Translator renders, Seria Risu…"

"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please …"

"How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule?"

"Gravity is of the very Essence of Imposture. It does not only make us mistake other Things, but is apt perpetually al…"

"We may have an excellent Ear in Musick, without being able to perform in any kind. We may judg well of Poetry, withou…"

"Truth, 'tis suppos'd, may bear all Lights: and one of those principal Lights or natural Mediums, by which Things are …"

"All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amica…"

"True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Pa…"

"The most natural Beauty in the World is Honesty, and Moral Truth. For all Beauty is Truth. True Features make the Bea…"