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.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.