Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.