In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.

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

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

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.