If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.