It Is Not So Easy

Why Will Friends Publish All The Trash They Can Scrape Together Of Celebrated People?

Tyranny And Injustice Always Produce Cunning And Falsehood.

If Young Women Were Not Deceived Into A Belief That Affectation Pleases, They Would Scarcely Trouble Themselves To Practise It So Much.

Our Pleasures In Literature Do Not, I Think, Decline With Age; Last 1st Of January Was My Eighty-second Birthday, And I Think That I Had As Much Enjoyment From Books As I Ever Had In My Life.

[on Collectors Of Quotations:] How Far Our Literature May In Future Suffer From These Blighting Swarms, Will Best Be Conceived By A Glance At What They Have Already Withered And Blasted Of The Favourite Productions Of Our Most Popular Poets.