Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.