Whoever Thinks Of Going To Bed Before

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.

Lectures Were Once Useful; But Now When All Can Read, And Books Are So Numerous, Lectures Are Unnecessary.

It Is A Maxim That No Man Was Ever Enslaved By Influence While He Was Fit To Be Free.

Leave To Heaven The Measure And The Choice.

Adversity Leads Us To Think Properly Of Our State, And So Is Most Beneficial To Us.