An Actor's Life Is The Shadow Of

My Chief Time For Reading Is At Night While Brushing My Hair Before I Go To Bed, And As You May Suppose, But Little Profit And Pleasure Can Be Derived From Such Mere Sips At The Well Of Knowledge. 'tis A Great Privation To Me, For My Desire For Information Increases Instead Of Diminishing, And I Look Forward With Great Anxiety To The Time When I Can Improve My Poor Neglected Mind And Learn Some Of The Few Exhaustless Store Of Things Which I Wish To Know.

Place, Time, Life, Death, Earth, Heaven Are Divisions And Distinctions We Make, Like The Imaginary Lines We Trace Upon The Surface Of The Globe.

The Whole Gamut Of Good And Evil Is In Every Human Being, Certain Notes, From Stronger Original Quality Or Most Frequent Use, Appearing To Form The Whole Character; But They Are Only The Tones Most Often Heard. The Whole Scale Is In Every Soul, And The Notes Most Seldom Heard Will On Rare Occasions Make Themselves Audible.

[on John Brown:] The Poor Wretch Is Hanged, But From His Grave A Root Of Bitterness Will Spring, The Fruit Of Which At No Distant Day May Be Disunion And Civil War.

Rome ... Seems To Me The Place In The World Where One Can Best Dispense With Happiness.