Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

The laughers are a majority.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.