Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

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?

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing