Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.