At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

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.