To Make Dictionaries Is Dull Work.

Once A Coxcomb, Always A Coxcomb.

Modern Writers Are The Moons Of Literature; They Shine With Reflected Light, With Light Borrowed From The Ancients.

Abuse Is Often Of Service. There Is Nothing So Dangerous To An Author As Silence.

Bachelors Have Consciences, Married Men Have Wives.

The Parallel Circumstances And Kindred Images To Which We Readily Conform Our Minds Are, Above All Other Writings, To Be Found In The Lives Of Particular Persons, And Therefore No Species Of Writing Seems More Worthy Of Cultivation Than Biography.