I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

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

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.