I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Whatever you have spend less.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.