Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

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

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.