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.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

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

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

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.