An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

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.

London; a nation, not a city.

Meditation is culture.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.