What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

What a delight it is to respect people!

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.