I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.