The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.