Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Justice is the truth in action.

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

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.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.