Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
Reflection makes men cowards.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.