Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.