There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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 necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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