If Ridicule Were Employed To Laugh Men

Fables Take Off From The Severity Of Instruction, And Enforce It At The Same Time That They Conceal It.

Musick Is Certainly A Very Agreeable Entertainment, But If It Would Take The Entire Possession Of Our Ears, If It Would Make Us Incapable Of Hearing Sense, If It Would Exclude Arts That Have A Much Greater Tendency To The Refinement Of Human Nature; I Must Confess I Would Allow It No Better Quarter Than Plato Has Done, Who Banishes It Out Of His Common-wealth.

Devotion, When It Does Not Lie Under The Check Of Reason, Is Apt To Degenerate Into Enthusiasm.

There Is Not A More Melancholy Object Than A Man Who Has His Head Turned With Religious Enthusiasm.

A True Critic Ought To Dwell Rather Upon Excellencies Than Imperfections