The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

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

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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.