"Instead of Otello being an Italian opera..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.”

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.”

“The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.”

“The rhyme of the poetModulates the king's affairs.”

“Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.”

“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”

“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.”

“Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.”