All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

General consultant to mankind.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.