The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Be just before you are generous.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.