It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

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.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.