May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

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 are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.