Patriotism Is The Last Refuge

Fine Clothes Are Good Only As They Supply The Want Of Other Means Of Procuring Respect.

Nothing Detains The Reader's Attention More Powerfully Than Deep Involutions Of Distress, Or Sudden Vicissitudes Of Fortune; And These Might Be Abundantly Afforded By Memoirs Of The Sons Of Literature. They Are Entangled By Contracts Which They Know Not How To Fulfill, And Obliged To Write On Subjects Which They Do Not Understand. Every Publication Is A New Period Of Time, From Which Some Increase Or Declension Of Fame Is To Be Reckoned. The Gradations Of A Hero's Life Are From Battle To Battle, And Of An Author's From Book To Book.

I Hate Mankind, For I Think Myself One Of The Best Of Them, And I Know How Bad I Am.

Life Affords No Higher Pleasure Than That Of Surmounting Difficulties, Passing From One Step Of Success To Another, Forming New Wishes And Seeing Them Gratified.

Wit Will Never Make A Man Rich, But There Are Places Where Riches Will Always Make A Wit.