Satirists Gain The Applause Of Others Through

To-day Kings, To-marrow Beggars, It Is Only When They Are Themselves That They Are Nothing.

There Is Something Captivating In Spirit And Intrepidity, To Which, We Often Yield As To A Resistless Power; Nor Can He Reasonably Expect, The Confidence Of Others Who Too Apparently Distrusts Himself.

A Man Who Does Not Endeavour To Seem More Than He Is Will Generally Be Thought Nothing Of. We Habitually Make Such Large Deductions For Pretence And Imposture That No Real Merit Will Stand Against Them. It Is Necessary To Set Off Our Good Qualities With A Certain Air Of Plausibility And Self-importance, As Some Attention To Fashion Is Necessary.

Taste Is Nothing But An Enlarged Capacity For Receiving Pleasure From Works Of Imagination.

One Of The Pleasantest Things In The World Is Going On A Journey; But I Like To Go By Myself.