Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

[For him, that role illustrated some of the quirks of live theater.] They liked my hair, ... then they put me in a hat or wig for everything except one scene.

So much enamoured on peace that he [Falkland] would have been glad the King should have bought it at any price.

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast