What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

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.