Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.