Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.