To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

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.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.