One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.
To teach is to delight.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.