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

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.