Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.