Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

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

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.