An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.