Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

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.

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

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.