To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.