Setting Down In Writing, Is A Lasting

He Grew Weary Of This Condescension, And Began To Treat The Opinions Of His Wife With That Haughtiuess And Insolence, Which None But Those Who Deserve Some Contempt Themselves Can Bestow, And Those Only Who Deserve No Contempt Can Bear.

Now In Reality, The World Has Paid Too Great A Compliment To Critics, And Has Imagined Them To Be Men Of Much Greater Profundity Than They Really Are.

The Greatest Part Of Mankind Labor Under One Delirium Or Another; And Don Quixote Differed From The Rest, Not In Madness, But The Species Of It. The Covetous, The Prodigal, The Superstitious, The Libertine, And The Coffee-house Politician, Are All Quixotes In Their Several Ways.

Custom May Lead A Man Into Many Errors; But It Justifies None.

A Comic Writer Should Of All Others Be The Least Excused For Deviating From Nature, Since It May Not Be Always So Easy For A Serious Poet To Meet With The Great And The Admirable; But Life Every Where Furnishes An Accurate Observer With The Ridiculous.