What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.