I Am Now To Offer Some Thoughts

Dr. Johnson ... Sometimes Employed Himself In Chymistry, Sometimes In Watering And Pruning A Vine, And Sometimes In Small Experiments, At Which Those Who May Smile, Should Recollect That There Are Moments Which Admit Of Being Soothed Only By Trifles.

In An Orchard There Should Be Enough To Eat, Enough To Lay Up, Enough To Be Stolen, And Enough To Rot On The Ground.

Influence Must Ever Be In Proportion To Property; And It Is Right It Should.

Buffon, Who, With All His Theoretical Ingenuity And Extraordinary Eloquence, I Suspect Had Little Actual Information In The Science On Which He Wrote So Admirably For Instance, He Tells Us That The Cow Sheds Her Horns Every Two Years; A Most Palpable Error. ... It Is Wonderful That Buffon Who Lived So Much In The Country At His Noble Seat Should Have Fallen Into Such A Blunder I Suppose He Has Confounded The Cow With The Deer.

A Page Of My Journal Is Like A Cake Of Portable Soup. A Little May Be Diffused Into A Considerable Portion.