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.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.