Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
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.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Tenderness is the rest of passion.