The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.
A joke's a very serious thing.
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.