We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!