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English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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