The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.