Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

It's all been very interesting.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.