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.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

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.