Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.