Languages are the pedigree of nations.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.