Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
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.