It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.