Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

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

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.