There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.