Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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