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“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”

April 9, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.”

April 14, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257

“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.”

Epitaph on Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,
For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.”

Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)

“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”

1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=fcIIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Melancholy+indeed+should+be+diverted+by+every+means+but+drinking%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.”

Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 30, 1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.”

Of John Campbell, as quoted by Joseph Wharton; reported in "John Campbell", Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”

No. 80 (October 27, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)