The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

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

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

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.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.