There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?