Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

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?

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.