The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.