Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.