The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.