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.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.