I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Encourage innocent amusement.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.