We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.