Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.