A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.