A Novel Must Be Exceptionally Good To

If You Love Music Hear It; Go To Operas, Concerts, And Pay Fiddlers To Play To You; But I Insist Upon Your Neither Piping Nor Fiddling Yourself. It Puts A Gentleman In A Very Frivolous, Contemptible Light; Brings Him Into A Great Deal Of Bad Company; And Takes Up A Great Deal Of Time, Which Might Be Much Better Employed.

In My Mind, There Is Nothing So Illiberal, And So Ill-bred, As Audible Laughter.

Whoever Is In A Hurry Shows That The Thing He Is About Is Too Big For Him.

There Are People Who Indulge Themselves In A Sort Of Lying, Which They Reckon Innocent, And Which In One Sense Is So; For It Hurtsnobody But Themselves. This Sort Of Lying Is The Spurious Offspring Of Vanity, Begotten Upon Folly.

To Have Frequent Recourse To Narrative Betrays Great Want Of Imagination.