The more you do, the more you can do.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

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

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.