The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Every production must resemble its author.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?