Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.