Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.