MACHINE. 'If a man would rather be the machine I cannot argue with
him,' v. 117.
MADE DISH. 'As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was
a wretched attempt,' i. 469.
MADHOUSES. 'If you should search all the madhouses in England, you
would not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense,' iv.
170.
MADNESS. 'With some people gloomy penitence is only madness
turned upside down,' iii. 27.
MANKIND. 'As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,' iv. 239.
MANY. 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,' i. 396.
MARKET. 'A horse that is brought to market may not be bought,
though he is a very good horse,' iv. 172;
'Let her carry her praise to a better market,' iii. 293.
MARTYRDOM. 'Martyrdom is the test,' iv. 12.
MAST. 'A man had better work his way before the mast than read
them through,' iv. 308.
MEAL. 'He takes more corn than he can make into meal,' iv. 98.
MEANLY. 'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a
soldier, or not having been at sea,' iii. 265.
MEMORY. 'The true art of memory is the art of attention,' iv. 126,
n. 6.
MEN. 'Johnson was willing to take men as they are' (Boswell), iii. 282.
MERCHANT. 'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i.
491, n. 3.
MERIT. 'Like all other men who have great friends, you begin to
feel the pangs of neglected merit,' iv. 248.
MERRIMENT. 'It would be as wild in him to come into company without
merriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without his
pistols,' iii. 389.
MIGHTY. 'There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,' i. 422.
MILK. 'They are gone to milk the bull,' i. 444.
MILLIONS. 'The interest of millions must ever prevail over that of
thousands,' ii. 127.
MIND. 'A man loves to review his own mind,' iii. 228;
'Get as much force of mind as you can,' iv. 226;
'He fairly puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179;
'The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace
equally great things and small,' iii. 334;
'They had mingled minds,' iv. 308;
'To have the management of the mind is a great art,' ii. 440.
MISER. 'He has not learnt to be a miser,' v. 316.
MISERY. 'It would be misery to no purpose,' ii. 94;
'Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse
to the mention of it,' iv. 31.
MISFORTUNES. 'If a man _talks_ of his misfortunes, there is something
in them that is not disagreeable to him,' iv. 31.
MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319.
MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be a
a republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257.
MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182;
'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19;
'_Perhaps_ the money might be _found_, and he was _sure_ that
his wife was _gone_,' iv. 319;
'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed
than in getting money,' ii. 323;
'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400.
MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199.
MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having
been in the pillory,' iii. 315.
MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,'
ii. 230.
MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460.
MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only by
murder,' v. 93, n. 4.