The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.