Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Error is always talkative.
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.
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.