A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.