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.

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

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

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.