To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.