As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

One must be strict even in little things.