Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.