Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.