God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Nature tells every secret once.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

The sun shines today also.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.