The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

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.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.