The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

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

Good men must be affectionate men.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

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.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.