Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.