When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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

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

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.