A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.