Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.