On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.