He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.