Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.