To be popular I must be mediocre.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.