The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

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.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.