Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.