I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.