Crime generally punishes itself.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

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

Error is always talkative.