Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

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

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

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.

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

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.