Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.