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

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

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

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.