The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

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

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

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

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.