If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick characters, or of filling tragedy with poetical images, must be the gift of nature, which no instruction nor labour can supply; but the art of dramatick disposition, the contexture of the scenes, the involution of the plot, the expedients of suspension, and the strategems of surprise, are to be learned by practice.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.