"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

"I like the dreams of the future, better than the history of the past."

"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace."

"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

"When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one."

"I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes."

"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."

"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."