More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

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

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.