The Muses Crown Virtue When Fortune Refuses

Will An Intelligent Spectator Not Admire The Prodigeous Structures Of Stone-henge Because He Does Not Know By What Law Of Mechanics They Were Raised?

Few People Know Anything Of The English History But What They Learn From Shakespear; For Our Story Is Rather A Tissue Of Personal Adventures And Catastrophes Than A Series Of Political Events.

To Judge Therefore Of Shakespeare By Aristotle's Rule Is Like Trying A Man By The Laws Of One Country Who Acted Under Those Of Another.

Any Wife Will Save You From Purgatory, And A Diligent One Will Secure Heaven To You.

I Often Think That Those People Are The Happiest Who Know Nothing At All Of The World, And Sitting In The Little Empire Of The Fireside, Where There Is No Contention Or Cabal, Think We Are In A Golden Age Of Existance.