Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.