Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.