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

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

"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."

"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!"

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

"The infirmity of human intelligence is short sight. In too many cases, the wiseacres are dunces of a sort, who lose s…"

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

"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 …"

"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…"