"But for the love o' God," he said, "don't whisper it, for he would never understand or forgive me, if he did not thrash me on sight." The pathos of the part, and not its comic aspects, had most impressed him.

He designed and wrote it for Edwin Booth.

From the first and always he was disgusted by the Raymond portrayal.

Except for its popularity and money-making, he would have withdrawn it from the stage as, in a fit of pique, Raymond himself did while it was still packing the theaters.
The original Sellers had partly brought him up and had been very good to him.

A second Don Quixote in appearance and not unlike the knight of La Mancha in character, it would have been safe for nobody to laugh at James Lampton, or by the slightest intimation, look or gesture to treat him with inconsideration, or any proposal of his, however preposterous, with levity.
He once came to visit me upon a public occasion and during a function.
I knew that I must introduce him, and with all possible ceremony, to my colleagues.