The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

In oratory the will must predominate.