Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

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.