If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.