He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Avarice is always poor.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

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.