This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
From Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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