"Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry."

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature."

"Children always turn toward the light."

"In oratory the will must predominate."

"None but a fool is always right."

"Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth."

"The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, rag…"

"The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."

"A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when t…"

"Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour."