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

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

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

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.