What some people invent the rest enlarge.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

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

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.