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A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious...more

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

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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 a book.

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Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much...more

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