I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

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

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.