Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man..

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd b….

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes..

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive a….

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue..

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wan….

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, th….

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are..

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse..

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of ….

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge wit….

There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of ….

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil..

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind..

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service..

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired s….

Nobody with me at sea but myself..

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes..

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around..

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won..

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods ar….