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

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.