Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

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.