A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly. - Samuel Johnson

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is, therefore, become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.