When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.