Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

It is our first duty to serve society.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

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.

Truth allows no choice.