The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.