A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.