I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.