Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.

The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David <nowiki>[Garrick]</nowiki>; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.