The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

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.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Error is always talkative.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.