Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.