There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss -- a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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