A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.