What Is Easy Is Seldom Excellent.

Modern Writers Are The Moons Of Literature; They Shine With Reflected Light, With Light Borrowed From The Ancients.

Where There Is Emulation, There Will Be Vanity; Where There Is Vanity, There Will Be Folly.

I Would Advise No Man To Marry Who Is Not Likely To Propagate Understanding.

A Fly, Sir, May Sting A Stately Horse And Make Him Wince; But, One Is But An Insect, And The Other Is A Horse Still.

A Man, Doubtful Of His Dinner, Or Trembling At A Creditor, Is Not Much Disposed To Abstracted Meditation, Or Remote Enquiries.