Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.