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

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.