"The misfortune in the state is, that..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Our foibles are really what make us lovable.”

“The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.”

“But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned”

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.”

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.”

“Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”