Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.