Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

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.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.