The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

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

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

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.