Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.