children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

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

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

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

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.