There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.