Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.