When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Round numbers are always false.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.