Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Medicine for the dead is too late

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.