Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

No being can make another one happy.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.