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 enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.