A sight to dream of, not to tell!

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.