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

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

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.

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

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.