The Only Stable State Is

Comedy Has Had No History, Because It Was Not At First Treated Seriously.

For It Is Not True, As Some Treatise-mongers Lay Down In Their Systems, Of The Probity Of The Speaker, That It Contributes Nothing To Persuasion; But Moral Character Nearly, I May Say, Carries With It The Most Sovereign Efficacy In Making Credible.

Wickedness Is Nourished By Lust.

Poetry Is Finer And More Philosophical Than History; For Poetry Expresses The Universal, And History Only The Particular.

By Myth I Mean The Arrangement Of The Incidents