A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.