As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Better never than late.