The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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 was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.