English essayist (1775-1834)

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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.
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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