Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

No one is content with his own lot.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.