An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.