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.
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Particular lies may speak a general truth.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.