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

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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.

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?