To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

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 that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.