"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."

"The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the myth."

"The compound of the two, the artistic and the practical, is the most powerful weapon in the world."

"The world is a stage, and we are merely players."

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."