There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless