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.

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

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

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.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

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.

One must be strict even in little things.