All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.