Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

Patience and gentleness is power.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.