Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

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.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

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

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.