The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.