I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.