"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."

"Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement."

"To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike."

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

"Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach."

"Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit."

"Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful."

"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed."

"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards."

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

"No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring."

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed."

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."

"While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates."

"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

"Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true."

"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."

"This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."

"Clear your mind of "can't.""

"Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."

"Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own."

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

"To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough."

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."

"Our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness."

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

"Men only become friends by community of pleasures."

"As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath."

"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."