If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

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?

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.