Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

Poetry cannot be translation

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?