"Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'"

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"

"The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions."

"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic"

"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence"

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions"

"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."