To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Money confounds subordination.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.