These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

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.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.