It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.