We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

His saying was: live and let live.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.