Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.