The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

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

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

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.