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?

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.