I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.