There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Having been duke, you don't go be peasant again.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.