If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

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.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.