Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.