There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.