It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.