Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.
Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
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.
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.