Once in four-and-twenty hours, the witty and the dull are all overpowered by the gentle tyrant, and all lie down in the equality of sleep.

No man is so much open to conviction as the Idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions; every step which he advances brings something within his view, which he begins to want.

This was the first time that I found it thought criminal or dangerous to know how to read.