A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

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.