The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

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

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.