The individual who scoffs at New Year’s resolutions resembles the woman who says she doesn’t look under the bed at nights; the truth is not in him.
Two
To give pleasure is the highest end of any work of art, because the pleasure procured from any art is tonic, and transforms the life into which it enters.
Three
There are only two fundamental differences in the world—the difference between sex and sex, and the difference between youth and age.
Four
The only class of modern play in which it is possible to be both quite artistic and quite marketable, is the farce.
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To enjoy a work of imagination is no pastime, rather a sweet but fatiguing labour. After a play of Shakespeare or a Wagnerian opera repose is needed. Only a madman like Louis of Bavaria could demand Tristan twice in one night.