The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

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

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.

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.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.