Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.