No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
You can never know enough about your characters
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.