He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.

The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in sec…

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.