Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.