A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.