Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

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

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.