It Is By Spending Oneself That One

Permanent Success Cannot Be Achieved Except By Incessant Intellectual Labour, Always Inspired By The Ideal.

Legend Remains Victorious In Spite Of History.

... Actors Of The First Water Are Not More Plentiful Than Playwrights Of Genius.

The Artist's Personality Must Be Left In His Dressing-room; His Soul Must Be Denuded Of Its Own Sensations And Clothed With The Base Or Noble Qualities He Is Called Upon To Exhibit.... [he] Must Leave Behind Him The Cares And Vexations Of Life, Throw Aside His Personality For Several Hours, And Move In The Dream Of Another Life, Forgetting Everything.

If I Have A Foreign Accent—which I Much Regret—it Is Cosmopolitan, But Not Teutonic. I Am A Daughter Of The Great Jewish Race, And My Somewhat Uncultivated Language Is The Outcome Of Our Enforced Wanderings.