Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.