Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

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.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

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