You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.