All heiresses are beautiful.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.