To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

We must part for if we have two kings we must have two beds.