Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

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.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.