Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.