The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.