A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some …