ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
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.