We May Be Partial, But

As There Is A Use In Medicine For Poisons, So The World Cannot Move Without Rogues.

The Sensual Man Conforms Thoughts To Things; The Poet Conforms Things To His Thoughts.

I Think I Have Done Well, If I Have Acquired A New Word From A Good Author; And My Business With Him Is To Find My Own, Though Itwere Only To Melt Him Down Into An Epithet Or An Image For Daily Use.

Men Are What Their Mothers Made Them.

Thought And Knowledge Are Natures In Which Apparatus And Pretension Avail Nothing. Gowns, And Pecuniary Foundations, Though Of Towns Of Gold, Can Never Countervail The Least Sentence Or Syllable Of Wit. Forget This, And Out American Colleges Will Recede In Their Public Importance Whilst They Grow Richer Every Year.