Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

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

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.