Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.