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.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.