Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.