Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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.

We are taught words, not ideas.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.