Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.