» A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
» Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
» Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
» An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
» 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.
» A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
» Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
» Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
» No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
» The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.