People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Fear guides more than gratitude.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
They say women and music should never be dated.
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.