Zeal will do more than knowledge.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.