Fear is choosing the safe course

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.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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.