It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.