Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.