“One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.”

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing; that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost: Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly, I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.”

“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, —and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that he cannot hang up a single inference within side of it, to save his soul from destruction.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”

“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”

“Memiliki rasa hormat pada diri sendiri akan membimbing moral kita,Memiliki rasa hormat terhadap orang lain akan menjaga sikap sopan santun kita.”

“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”