There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.