If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Patriotism corrupts history.

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?