When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.