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.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

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

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Well I've had a happy life.