I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

My first quote will never be the same.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.