Boswell, James quotes
1740-1795 British Writer JournalistI have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Boswell, James
Choice
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
Boswell, James
Friends and Friendship
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
Boswell, James
Journalism and Journalists
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Boswell, James
Laughter
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Boswell, James
Puns