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

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

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