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!

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

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