The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.