Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.