A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.