Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

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

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

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

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.