Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
It is charming to totter into vogue.
This world is a comedy, not Life.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.