A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.