Every dog must have his day.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.