When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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

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

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.