"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

"Genius is of no country."

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."

"Genius is independent of situation."

"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."

"Patience is sorrow's salve."

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."