The Scent Of Sloth Tempts A Smug

I Fancy Mankind May Come, In Time, To Write All Aphoristically.

[a]s A Lady Adjusts Her Dress Before A Mirror, A Man Adjusts His Character By Looking At His Journal.

It Is Not Every Man Who Can Be Exquisitely Miserable, Any More Than Exquisitely Happy.

Dr Johnson Said, The Inscription Should Have Been In Latin, As Every Thing Intended To Be Universal And Permanent, Should Be.

In Comparing These Two Writers, He [samuel Johnson] Used This Expression: "that There Was As Great A Difference Between Them As Between A Man Who Knew How A Watch Was Made, And A Man Who Could Tell The Hour By Looking On The Dial-plate." This Was A Short And A Figurative Statement Of His Distinction Between Drawing Characters Of Nature And Characters Only Of Manners, But I Cannot Help Being Of Opinion, That The Neat Watches Of Fielding Are As Well Constructed As The Large Clocks Of Richardson, And That His Dial Plates Are Brighter.