Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

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.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

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.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.