Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.