For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Virtue is her own reward.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.