Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.