Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.