My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
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.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
General notions are generally wrong.
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.