A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.