A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

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.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.