In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy
It is our first duty to serve society.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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.