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.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.