The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.