Principle Is A Passion For Truth.

The Diffusion Of Taste Is Not The Same Thing As The Improvement Of Taste.

Grace Is The Absence Of Everything That Indicates Pain Or Difficulty, Hesitation Or Incongruity.

Repose Is As Necessary In Conversation As In A Picture.

Our Notions With Respect To The Importance Of Life, And Our Attachment To It, Depend On A Principle Which Has Very Little To Do With Its Happiness Or Its Misery. The Love Of Life Is, In General, The Effect Not Of Our Enjoyments, But Of Our Passions.

Actors Are The Only Honest Hypocrites.