Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I drink to make other people interesting.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.