Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.