To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.