That favorite subject, Myself.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

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

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 every picture there should be shade as well as light.