As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Crime generally punishes itself.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

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