A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.