How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

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

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.