Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.