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.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

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

The passions do not die out; they burn out.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.