One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.