I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Solitude begets whimsies.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.