The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Children need models rather than critics.

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.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

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.