When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

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?

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

Doubt grows with knowledge.