When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

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

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.