Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.