Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.