Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.