Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.