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.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.