The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.