Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

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?

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.