Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

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.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.