Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.