Irresolution And Mutability Are Often The Faults

Fine Clothes Are Good Only As They Supply The Want Of Other Means Of Procuring Respect.

Curiosity, Like All Other Desires, Produces Pain As Well As Pleasure.

Games Are Good Or Bad As To Their Nature; All May Be Perverted.

Being Reproached For Giving To An Unworthy Person, Aristotle Said, I Did Not Give It To The Man, But To Humanity.

The Art Of The Writer, Like That Of The Player, Is Attained By Slow Degrees. The Power Of Distinguishing And Discriminating Comick Characters, Or Of Filling Tragedy With Poetical Images, Must Be The Gift Of Nature, Which No Instruction Nor Labour Can Supply; But The Art Of Dramatick Disposition, The Contexture Of The Scenes, The Involution Of The Plot, The Expedients Of Suspension, And The Strategems Of Surprise, Are To Be Learned By Practice.