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 respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

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

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.