What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.