People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.