"I've had about enough of morons and half wits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells … and you, you chowder-head yoke…"

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."

"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against…"

"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."

"Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish gr…"

"Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce."

"The most ignorant are the most conceited. Unless a man knows that there is something more to be known, his inference …"

"Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance …"

"For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions."

"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."