All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

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?

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.