It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

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.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.