People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.