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.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

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.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

We must take our friends as they are.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.