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

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.

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

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.