Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

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.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today