I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.