Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

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

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

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.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

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

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.