The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.