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.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.