A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
We must be doing something to be happy.
We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.