Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

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

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.