That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

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.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.