The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.