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.
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.