Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

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

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