The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.