No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

Change is not made without inconvenience.