"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
"The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history."
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Source: Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227
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