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.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

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.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

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

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.