Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.