I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.