There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.