People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.