Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.