Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

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.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.