No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?