Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.