For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.