Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

May you live all the days of your life.