In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.