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

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.