"I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [...] I hated …"

"'Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unl…"

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

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

"In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers."

"As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church."

"My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lor…"

"I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would alwa…"

"Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!"

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