“He was not of an age, but for all time!”

“Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times”

“Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!”

“No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not need thy false relief.Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam;But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.”

“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.”

“Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!”