It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.