Silence is become his mother tongue.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

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.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.