"One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it."

"The aim of fiction is to show what man is like, not to teach him what he ought to be."

"To do nothing is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most repulsive."

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."