He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts…

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.

Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.

'Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be …

Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.