We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.