Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.