You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.