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.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.