Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
The triumph of hope over experience.
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.
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.