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

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.