Who Drives Fat Oxen Should Himself Be

A Lexicographer, A Writer Of Dictionaries, A Harmless Drudge.

Too Much Nicety Of Detail Disgusts The Greatest Part Of Readers, And To Throw A Multitude Of Particulars Under General Heads, And Lay Down Rules Of Extensive Comprehension, Is To Common Understandings Of Little Use.

Composition Is For The Most Part An Effort Of Slow Diligence And Steady Perseverance, To Which The Mind Is Dragged By Necessity Or Resolution, And From Which The Attention Is Every Moment Starting To More Delightful Amusements.

The Worst Evils Are Those That Never Arrive.

Whatever Enlarges Hope Will Also Exalt Courage.