In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.