One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.