It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

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

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

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.