No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.