Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.