Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.