He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

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

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.