What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

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!