More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Humility is attentive patience.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.