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.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Money confounds subordination.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar