Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

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.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.