. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Go to Quote / Comment
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Go to Quote / Comment
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Go to Quote / Comment
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Go to Quote / Comment
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. Go to Quote / Comment