Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.