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

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?