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

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.

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

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

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

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

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