Books, the children of the brain.
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.