The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.