"Feeble verses are those which sin not..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”

“Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it”

“I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.”

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”

“He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.”

“If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.”

“Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.”

“There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.”