Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.