To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

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.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.