There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.