The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.