Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Little things are great to little men.

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

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.