In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.