Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.