The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

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?

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.