Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.