A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.