For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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

Necessity knows no Sunday.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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?