Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.