It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.