"Only during hard work can the soul be at rest."

"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there."

"The artist must not be a judge of his characters and their conversations, but only an unbiased witness."

"We shall die, and they will bury us, and people will forget us. But we shall leave behind us our children, our thoughts, our work."

"If you cry ‘Forward!’ you must make sure in which direction."