A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.