Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.