A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and, when it is over, any thing but friends.
A man must serve his time to every trade save Censure – Critics all are ready made.
A great poet belongs to no country, his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public.
‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; a Book’s a Book, altho’ there’s nothing in’t.
‘T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.