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 joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.