Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.