Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

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

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.