Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.