Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.