To forget someone means to think of him.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.