Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.