The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.