To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The only cure for grief is action.

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.