It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink..

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other..

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only t….

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in ti….

This world is a comedy, not Life..

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold..

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakes….

Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, ….

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see the….

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palm….

My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only ene….

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy..

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when paint….

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well..

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I..

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first..

It is charming to totter into vogue..

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV..

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits..

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences….