And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. - Samuel Johnson

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different auditors have different habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety.