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

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Morality is not respectability.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.