Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.