Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.