The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.