Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.