I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

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

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.