The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.