Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.