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

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

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.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.