He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.