The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

By writing, you learn to write.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.