"Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible."

"The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand."

"Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all."

"The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece."

"I have always noticed that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go away to the country a…"

"He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted."

"Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door."

"The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind."

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

"Never could I interest myself in a book if it were not the exact diet my mind required at the time, or in the very im…"