Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.