Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.