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

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.