A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.