* DesignatedHero: "I dare assert too, in defiance of the favorers of the ancients, that Creator/{{Homer}}'s hero, Achilles, was both a brute and a scoundrel, and consequently an improper character for the hero of an epic poem; he had so little regard for his country, that he would not act in defense of it, because he had quarreled with Agamemnon about a w---e; and then afterward, animated by private resentment only, he went about killing people basely, I will call it, because he knew himself invulnerable; and yet, invulnerable as he was, he wore the strongest armor in the world; which I humbly apprehend to be a blunder; for a horse-shoe clapped to his vulnerable heel would have been sufficient." (letter 64)
* HarsherInHindsight: "for I do not suppose you capable of falling in love with a strumpet" (letter 117) [[spoiler:As early as 1750, the son had met his later wife and mother of his two sons. Until his death in 1768, he wouldn't tell his father about them.]]
* ValuesResonance: About fox-hunting: "The poor beasts are here pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves".

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