It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

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

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.