Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.