To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.