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

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.