We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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

Forgive what you can't excuse.

How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.