A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.