The play has missed fire, and the playwright and his hero are ridiculous.

Let us understand one thing: if we want to make men dutiful we must make them joyous.
IV It is because we must talk of grave things that we must preserve our gaiety; otherwise we could not preserve our balance.

By some freak of nature, the average man strikes attitudes as readily as the average boy whistles.

We know how the _poseur_ works mischief to every cause, and we can see the _poseur_ on every side.

In politics, he has made the platform contemptible, which is a danger to the nation, needing the right use of platform; in literature--well, we all know bourgeois, but who has done justice to the artist who gets on a platform to talk about the bourgeois ?--in religion, the _poseur_ is more likely to make agnostics than all the Rationalist Press; and the agnostic _poseur_ in turn is very funny.