James Boswell Should Quotations

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

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

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