I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.