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.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Prudery is ignorance.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

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