It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.