Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.