No Entertainment Is So Cheap

My Dear Smollett ... Disgraces His Talent By Writing Those Stupid Romances Called History.

Nature Is Seldom In The Wrong, Custom Always.

As I Approach A Second Childhood, I Endeavor To Enter Into The Pleasures Of It.

I Have Never, In All My Various Travels, Seen But Two Sorts Of People I Mean Men And Women, Who Always Have Been, And Ever Will Be, The Same. The Same Vices And The Same Follies Have Been The Fruit Of All Ages, Though Sometimes Under Different Names.

Writers Of Novels And Romance In General Bring A Double Loss To Their Readers; Robbing Them Of Their Time And Money; Representing Men, Manners, And Things, That Never Have Been, Or Are Likely To Be.