The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.