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.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.