English essayist (1775-1834)

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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