For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

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.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.