Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.