The only cure for grief is action.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

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.

The artist is called a creator.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.