Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.