I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

The world meets nobody half way.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

It is good to have friends at court.