Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.